September 2010
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List: Roma
worldandtime:
100 more days until I’m back in Rome!
Which means 100 more days until:
I get to have the BEST SANDWICH EVER. And order it IN ITALIAN. Proscuitto e ricotta su ciabatte, per favore. No funghi.
I have to choke down a glass of warm limoncello, which will induce me to wander around the streets of Rome, speaking in the BEST Italian accent anyone in Italy will ever be blessed to...
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Leaving (for) Las Vegas →
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Interview: Robin Locker of My Melange
This weeks interview is with Robin of My Melange. Interestingly Robin had no strong desire to travel until she watched Under the Tuscan Sun!
What is your first memory of traveling?
My first memory of travel, in terms of a large family vacation, was a trip to Walt Disney World when I was about 10 years old. We all took Amtrak from New York to Orlando- a 23 hour trip. While I remember getting...
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Pilot Becomes Etihad Airways First Female Captain →
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
– Mark Twain (via thai-madness)
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Travel Plans / Dreams
Our vague travel ideas are becoming more like far off plans, costs are starting to be calculated and destinations chosen. We have always intended to take off once the time was right and we had enough money saved up. Now it seems like that might happen sooner rather than later…
Because of this we are starting to work out where we might go and how long our money might last. We can either...
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The best vacation ever - The Boston Globe →
How should you spend your time off? Believe it or not, science has some answers.
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to...
– G. K. Chesterton
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The Underground River (Palawan,Philippines)
Every December our family goes to vacation in different places in the Philippines. Last December our family went to Palawan. This place has one of the world’s great wonder, an underground river, which was made in the hands of nature. Before arriving the actual river, we have to cross the sea from the main land, the sea was ragging, as if we were riding a carnival ride. But when we arrived at...
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